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Mood: mood

Definition

Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms. Its an inflectional verb feature in Estonian, including indicative, conditional, imperative and quotative. According to some authors (e.g Erelt 2003), Estonian also has jussive mood. However, in Estonian UD, these usages are regarded as quotatives.

Ind: Indicative
The indicative can be considered the default mood. A verb in indicative merely states that something happens, has happened or will happen, without adding any attitude of the speaker. Indicative mood combines with all persons and tenses and both voices in Estonian.

Imp: imperative
The imperative expresses the speaker’s request, order or prohibition to the listener or call for a joint action. In the imperative mood, there is no first person singular form. The first person plural forms belong to the high style. The second person singular form is unmarked. Some authors separate third person forms as jussive mood (e.g. Erelt 2003).
Imperative mood combines both with active and passive voice.

Cnd: conditional
The conditional mood is used to express the speaker’s opinion that an action or an event would have taken place under some circumstances but it actually did not / do not happen. Conditional mood is also used to express politeness.
A verb in conditional mood may inflect for person, but alternatively, non-inflected forms are also widely used.
Conditional mood combines with two tenses: present and preteritum (compound past) In the latter case, only the auxiliary is tagged using the feature cond.
Conditional combines with both voices (active and passive) in Estonian.

Quot: quotative
The quotative is used when the speaker wants to point out that s/he is not responsible for the accuracy of a statement but acts only as an intermediary or reporter.
Verb in quotative mood does not inflect for person. Like conditional, it combines with two tenses – present and preteritum (compound past). In the latter case, only the auxiliary is tagged using the feature quot. Quotative combines with both voices, active and passive.

Erelt 2003 = Estonian language. Edited by Mati Erelt. Linguistica Uralica Supplemenatry series vol 1. Tallinn: Estonian Academy Publishers.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 4 different values: Cnd, Imp, Ind, Qot.

5227 tokens (15%) have a non-empty value of Mood. 1810 types (17%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. 938 lemmas (13%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: et-pos/VERB (3791; 11% instances), et-pos/AUX (1436; 4% instances).

VERB

3791 et-pos/VERB tokens (75% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (3791; 100%), Voice=Act (3692; 97%), Number=Sing (2792; 74%), Person=3 (2697; 71%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm olemaIndImpCndQot
Connegative=Yes|Tense=Pastolnud
Connegative=Yes|Tense=Presole
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Presolen
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Presoled
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastoli, oligi
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Preson, Ongi
Number=Sing|Tense=PresOlgu
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=PresOleme
Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=PresOlge
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pastolid
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Preson
Polarity=Neg|Tense=Pastpolnud
Polarity=Neg|Tense=Prespole, polegi
Tense=Presoleoleksolevat

Mood seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 90% lemmas (843) occur only with one value of Mood.

AUX

1436 et-pos/AUX tokens (97% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (1436; 100%), Voice=Act (1147; 80%), Polarity=EMPTY (1059; 74%), Person=3 (838; 58%), Number=Sing (804; 56%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm olemaIndImpCndQot
Connegative=Yes|Tense=Pastolnud
Connegative=Yes|Tense=Presole
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pastolin
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Presolenoleksin
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pastolid, olidki
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Presoledole
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastoli, oligi
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Preson, ongi
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=PresolemeOlgem
Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Presolete
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pastolid
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Preson, ongiolguoleksid
Polarity=Neg|Tense=Pastpolnud, polnudki
Polarity=Neg|Tense=Prespole, polegipoleks
Tense=Presoleoleksolevat

Relations with Agreement in Mood

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Mood: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (511; 81%), VERB –[parataxis]–> VERB (111; 70%), VERB –[ccomp]–> VERB (78; 54%), AUX –[conj]–> VERB (13; 87%).


Mood in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]